Rear-sight mirror



Sept. 18, 1928. v

H. T. SCOTT REAR SIGHT MIRROR Filed April 28, 1926 :Excnl.

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. a ena-e?- INVENTOR Patented Sept. 18, 1928.

UN TED STA ES HARRY in. soon, or Los Antennas, CALIFORNIA.

REAR-SIGHT MIRROR.

'Application filed April 28. 1926. Serial No. 105,181.

' This invention relates to devices used for displaying to the driver of a vehicle, any occurrences behind him and around him while driving.- I

One of the objects ofthis invention is to produce a device so designed that it may be attached to the door of an inclosed automobile.

'Another object is to provide a device of especially thin structure to fit into the narrow spaceleft on inclosed cars with wind wings attached to the sides of the wind shield of the automobile.

Another object is to provide a device with pivoting means in a narrow frame structure forswinging movements in a principally vertical plane, having other pivot interconnection between the frame structure and the mirror proper, to allow a swinging of the mirror proper in a generally horizontal plane.

Another object is to provide especialiy light but rigidstructures for the frame as well as for thermirror proper.

Other objects willappear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the complete mirror structure, including frame and mirror proper, of a simple form embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a slightly modified form of frame structure, indicating the mirror proper in a fragmentary manner.

Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the frame for the mirror proper, in stretched condition before the frame is bent to inclose the glass and other parts of the mirror proper.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged general cross section through the frame for the mirror proper, illustrating the punching and burring for the connecting bolts.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevation of a connecting bolt disposed in the burred hole of the mirror frame, and illustrating also the forming of the bolt-head for holding the bolt against turning.

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the bolt head, to illustrate the means by which the bolt is held against turning.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary cross section through the interconnection by the bolt be tween the supporting frame and the mirror frame. V

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary end elevation of the supporting frame of Fig.1, as seen at right angles, to the illustration of Fig. 1.

Fig. 9. is a fragmentary end elevation of the supporting frame of Fig. 2, seen at right angles. r

As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 8, the supporting frame 10 is made of thinfiat material, bent in U-form having perforated apertured terminations 11 for pivotally supporting the mirror proper, indicated at 12. The central portion 13 of this supporting frame is formed to provide a bearing surface of comparatively small dimensions, in order to avoid or eliminate unnecessary or excessive scratching orv marring of the surfaces to which this device may be attached, as thesurface of an automobile door, or the sides of the frame structure of the automobile. The;v larger portions of the frame 10 are set back from the bearing and wearing surface 15 of this supporting frame, as indicated at 14, so that the suppor ing frame 10 may be swung and adjusted around the point of pivoting at 16 without a touching ofthe largerportions ofthis supporting frameon the surface to which the central portion 13 isattached.

The slightly modified form of Figs. 2 and 9 illustrate the supportingfram'e 10, provided with portions 17 slantingdirectly from the apertured terminations 11 to the narrow central portion 13,, requiring somewhat less bending than the form of Figs. 1 and 8, though the mirror proper must, of course, also be cut off at the corners, or a mirror of not strictly a rectangular form is preferably used in such a slightly modified form of supporting frame. T he pivot holes 18, of which a pair are indicated in thisform, are preferother shape, this mirror frame is preferably cut from a single bar, and notched, as indicated at 21, and cut off as indicated at 22, to

produce a smooth evenly joining appearance j 2 r y e i 1,684,560

the frame is, of course, merely bent to in a suitable manner to complete such a shape without notching.

At the points of pivoting, the frame is punched and burredas illustrated in {11,

so that no material is cut outor lost, an

burred material is even used for bearing pur' held against turning by the very fact of being so formed. As illustrated in Figs. 5 and ti,

the grooved head of the screw, by being forcedinto the buried hole of the frame, is deformed to such an extentthat the screw cannot turn, especially after the glass and other parts are inserted in the mirror-frame 20, so thatthe screw is then held in the unround' orcorrespondingly shaped hole in the frame, since the screw had been forced in, to make the burred hole correspond tothe shape taken by the screw-on being forced into the frame hole. i r r a A cupped washer 25 is inserted between the mirronframe 20 and the apertured end 11 of the main supporting frame 10, and the screw 24 with the mirror-frame 20 are held locked in desired positions in relation to the main supporting frame 10 by the nuts26 and27.

The glass or reflector 28 isbacked by an oiled paper '29, to protect the rear side of the reflector, and a cushioning means 30 is inof a screw with the grooved head folded on" the plane of the slot until the top horizontal edges of the slot meet adapted to be held withburred portions of t e said frame against turning.

in the correspondingly formed punched and y 2. In a rear and side view mirror for in closed cars, arefiector, a frame :formed around the reflector and made of light material and having punched. and burred hear? ing portions, pivots made of screwswiththe grooved heads folded ointhe plane of the slot until the top horizontal edges of the slot meet seated in the bearing portions and held against turning, the said bearing portions having shapes toseat the folded screw heads, a supporting frame having apertured' ends to engage the pivots, cup-washersdisposed over the burr-ed portions of the reflectorrframe and between the reflector-frame and the support ing frame, and locking means for drawing and holding the said bearing portionsof the reflector-frame into the said washers and against the supportingframe.

HARRY T. SCOTT. 

